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logging.
• At least 300 acres of partially burned and standing dead trees remain uncut in the Angora project area that calls for logging up to 1,500 acres -- a total area of more than 2 square miles on national forest land on the west edge of town.
• Hanson said the logging had moved within a few hundred yards of the actual nest tree where he identified a mother black-backed woodpecker feeding chicks on Memorial Day, accompanied by a photographer for The Associated Press.
• Agency officials told the group normal procedures dictate any documented nest tree itself be spared but no additional protection currently is planned at the project in the works since early 2009.
• Hanson, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Davis who has been

challenging logging projects in the Sierra for more than a decade with mixed success, said a bare minimum buffer of at least 60 acres is needed.
• With less, he said even if the chicks' parents don't abandon the nest they won't have a big enough foraging territory to keep the young fed. He said the chicks won't be able to fly for weeks and logging already is up against the 60-acre core.
• "There are

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